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PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced the winners of its 2010 City’s Best
program, providing a guide to the best local food, entertainment and
lifestyle options in Philadelphia. From Oct. 13 through Nov. 30,
Philadelphians cast their votes to select their favorite venues from a
list of top local businesses in 27 categories. The City’s Best program
will continue offering Philadelphians daily news and updates on the
latest in local lifestyle and entertainment.

In addition, by coming back to http://www.citysbest.com/betterplace
from today until December 31, 2010, Philadelphians can use City’s Best
as a platform to show their support for local education. City’s Best has
partnered with DonorsChoose.org to donate $25,000 to the city that earns
the most votes.

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

After two months of voting for their favorite local food, entertainment
and lifestyle nominees, Philadelphia residents have identified the
following category winners:

Best After-Work Bars: Cavanaugh’s River Deck

Best Barbecue: Sweet Lucy’s Smokehouse

Best Beer Selection: South Philadelphia Tap Room

Best Cocktails: Continental Mid-Town Restaurant

Best Day Drinking: Monk’s Café

Best Dive Bars: Dirty Frank’s

Best Family-Friendly Restaurants: Nifty Fifty’s

Best Fashion Boutiques: Knit Wit

Best Hotels: Four Seasons Hotel

Best Irish Pubs: McGillin’s Olde Ale House

Best Italian Food: Ralph’s Italian Restaurant

Best Kid’s Clothing: Born Yesterday

Best Live Music: World Café Live

Best Mexican Food: Los Gallos Mexican Taqueria

Best Movie Theaters: AMC Franklin Mills Mall 14

Best Philly Cheesesteaks: Geno’s Steaks

Best Pizza: Tacconelli’s Pizza

Best Places to Break Up: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Best Romantic Restaurants: Rose Tattoo Café

Best Salons: The Alley Hair Salon

Best Seafood: DiNardo’s Famous Seafood

Best Spas: Terme di Aroma

Best Sports Bars: Chickie’s & Pete’s

Best Steak Houses: The Capital Grille

Best Sushi & Japanese: Morimoto

Best Tattoo & Piercing Parlors: Infinite Body Piercing

Best Thrift & Vintage Shops: Astro Vintage

AOL today also announced winners for the 2010 City’s Best program in 24
additional major cities: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston,
Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Las
Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego, San
Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Twin Cities and
Washington, DC. Voters throughout all 25 major cities joined the
quest for their “City’s Best” by visiting www.citysbest.com
to vote for their favorite food, entertainment and lifestyle businesses.

The 2010 City’s Best nominees in each category have been able to promote
their businesses through resources provided by AOL. All nominees were
sent the ubiquitous City’s Best window sticker to display at their
business, so residents can easily spot one of the city’s best in store
windows across their city. All of the winners will continue to be
featured on the AOL City’s Best website for the coming months.
Philadelphians are encouraged to visit the site for more information
about the winners and for the latest news on things to do and places to
go in Philadelphia.

“We are very excited to be announcing the winners of the 2010 City’s
Best program in Philadelphia,” said Cotton Delo, AOL Northeast Regional
Editor. “We are thrilled that so many Philadelphia residents chose to
take part in this unique opportunity which allows them to give
recognition to their favorite local businesses and select the best that
Philadelphia has to offer. And now that the winners have been announced,
I encourage Philadelphians to come back to City’s Best on a regular
basis to check out what’s happening in Philadelphia. We are posting new
stories and interactive elements on a daily basis.”

Local business nominees in Philadelphia were chosen based on overall
reputation. City’s Best editors and writers selected the nominees based
on editorial insight and local opinion of Philadelphia residents. The
selection process was fueled by the mission of City’s Best, which is to
bring experts and neighbors together to find and share the best in
Philadelphia. Voting by Philadelphia residents determined the final
winners in each category.

Make Your City A Better Place!

During a time of year when everyone makes resolutions to be better in
the new year, City's Best wants to make one city's 2011 all that it can
be.

In an effort to help readers make their city a better place in 2011 and
beyond, City's Best has partnered with DonorsChoose.org to fund
classroom projects in one of the 25 City's Best cities. From December
14, 2010 through December 31, 2010, Philadelphians will have the
opportunity to vote once a day for the city they believe deserves to be
granted this wish. They will also be able to share some of their own
resolutions with the rest of the City's Best community and receive
advice and information on local venues that will help them keep their
resolutions.

When all the votes are tallied, City's Best will donate $25,000 to local
classrooms in the winning city through DonorsChoose.org, helping provide
a better education for the city's future leaders. An additional donation
of $5,000 will go to classroom projects in the top three runner-up
cities.

About AOL

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is a leading global Web services company with an
extensive suite of brands and offerings and a substantial worldwide
audience. AOL's business spans online content, products and services
that the company offers to consumers, publishers and advertisers. AOL is
focused on attracting and engaging consumers and providing valuable
online advertising services on both AOL's owned and operated properties
and third-party websites. In addition, AOL operates one of the largest
Internet subscription access services in the United States, which serves
as a valuable distribution channel for AOL's consumer offerings.

About DonorsChoose.org

Founded in 2000 by a social studies teacher in the Bronx,
DonorsChoose.org is a nonprofit website where public school teachers
describe specific educational projects for their students, and donors
can choose the projects they want to support. After completing a
project, the donor hears back from the classroom they supported in the
form of photographs and student thank-you letters. Requests range from
pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to
microscope slides for a biology class. In the past ten years of
operation, residents of 50 states and 10 countries have funded 160,751
student projects, channeling more than $65 million in resources to over
4 million students.